When comparing Quiver vs Workflowy, the Slant community recommends Workflowy for most people. In the question“What is the best cross-platform note taking app?”Workflowy is ranked 10th while Quiver is ranked 61st. The most important reason people chose Workflowy is:

Any sublist can be viewed as a top-level list. This sounds simple but makes WorkFlowy extremely powerful. For example, the same line item, "write my book," can simultaneously be a to-do in a task list and the container for an entire working document.

Pros

Pro

Has more features than just a simple Markdown editor

Quiver is a notebook and note-taking app akin to Evernote which happens to also be able to edit Markdown files. As such, it has a lot of useful features such as: image support, file attachments, web content support and more.

Pro

Supports code highlighting

Has syntax highlighting for more than 120 programming languages.

Pro

Supports vi keybindings

For people used to vi keybindings, Quiver can be set up to work with them.

Pro

Live preview

Quiver has live preview for both Markdown and LaTeX. This helps users to better understand the way they are formatting their files.

Pro

Notes can be linked to each-other

Quiver notes have unique links that can be copied and pasted into other notes to gain quick access between them.

Pro

Combination of different types of writing in one note

The most outstanding thing for me. Use HTML line breaks while writing MD text.Also, unlike most hybrid editors like Bear, it supports instant image sizing and respective preview.

Pro

Cloud syncing

Pro

Outline-style hierarchy with zoom

Any sublist can be viewed as a top-level list. This sounds simple but makes WorkFlowy extremely powerful. For example, the same line item, "write my book," can simultaneously be a to-do in a task list and the container for an entire working document.

Pro

Minimalistic interface

Interface has no clutter. It allows focusing on thoughts to note down. This keeps things simple and easy to understand, which can help keep everything organized in an intuitive manner.

Pro

Easy to see an overview and organize notes

All notes are part of a list, which makes it easy to organize everything. Nested lists allow for organizing notes into hierarchical categories of infinite depth. All lists can be folded. WorkFlowy also has tags and instant full-text search.

Pro

Super fast sync between devices

While adding a list of to-do on web, it syncs with iPhone and iPad apps very quickly. This way you can jump between devices with no delay of up to date content.

Pro

Deep nesting

Workflowy's 'everything is in a tree' interface makes it easy to keep expanding on topics, no matter where, or how deep in the hierarchy they are.

Pro

Quickly focus on a specific topic

Enables users to focus on specific topic area, which is referred to as "hoisting" within Workflowy.

Pro

Tasks can be added and manipulated quickly

WorkFlowy allows entering many tasks very quickly – especially useful for meeting minutes or a "brain dump" when you have to type fast. After typing in all your thoughts, it's very easy to organize and sort multiple groups at once.

Pro

Cross-platform web and mobile

WorkFlowy can be accessed from either a browser or their apps, which include a Chrome app for desktops as well as an iOS and Android app. This makes it easy to access ones notes no matter the platform or device being used.

Pro

Supports tags

Enables users to search by tags.

Pro

Import and export via OPML

OPML (Outline Processor Markup Language) is a commonly used standard for text exchange. With two-way support for OPML you are never locked into Workflowy. Importing/exporting via copy/paste of entire outlines is a snap.

Pro

Text formatting

You can have bold, italic, and underlined text.

Pro

Strong community

There are number of talented coders who help customize WorkFlowy with extensions and styles. It has an active blog and welcomes collaboration.

Pro

Daily digest email

WorkFlowy can send you an email with that day's activity. It's a great way to track progress.

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Cons

Con

No iOS apps for editing, only a viewer available

I'd LOVE to edit and create quiver notes on my iPad!

Con

The line in focus shows a border around it which is distracting

The line in focus in the editor shows a rounded rectangular border around it, which is unappealing and distracting.

Con

Much more than a simple Markdown editor

Since it's more like a note-taking app (and a note-taking app built for developers) than a Markdown editor, it may be a little excessive to use it only for its Markdown editing features.

Con

Doesn't support images

Con

Cannot use link-text

You cannot have text link to a URL. When you link to a website you have to post the full URL instead. Instead of having the name of the website or article like, Slant, you instead have to post http://slant.co. It's especially annoying if you have a long URL that takes up a lot of space in the document.

Con

Inconvenient interface

Notes automatically collapse, making them unreadable without user interaction. You cannot view multiple long notes at once.

Con

No color coding

It's a black and white interface without the ability to differentiate based on color.

Con

No public API

Con

Doesn't work on all mobile phones

Not compatible with Android OS version 4.1 and 4.2.

Con

Offline desktop app requires Chrome

The offline desktop requires installing Google Chrome first before the WorkFlowy app can be installed. This is not good news for non-Chrome users especially users who frequently uses Firefox or Safari as their default browsers, in which Chrome app also suffers memory leak and battery issues.

Con

Doesn't work well in mobile browsers

The functionality of the mobile version of the site is a bit limited, while new features have been added such as the ability to move lines of text, even that is limited on Android to only being functional on Chrome.

Con

Infrequent updates and new features

WorkFlowy works well but it is hardly ever updated, in comparison to Dynalist, which works in a very similar way but has more features and is updated weekly.

Con

Only supports one big text file

Although with Workflowy's focus feature this can work, you might prefer managing separate text files.

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